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IAPH and IMO partner up further on communications

June 24, 2022

With the number of joint initiatives and projects being planned and executed between IAPH and IMO on energy transition, trade facilitation and port call optimisation, IAPH communications director Victor Shieh finally visited IMO’s headquarters in London this week to meet up in person for the first time with social media and communications officer Karine Langlois. Both have been working together during the pandemic on various projects. Subjects discussed included communications around IMO’s Marin

Next Harbor Café sessions on hydrogen and innovation

June 24, 2022

The IAPH Harbor Café will open its doors again to member guests, allowing them to informally join with a drink online and discuss key trending topics of interest. The first upcoming café is co-organised by the IAPH Europe and Africa regions as a bi-regional session on24 June at 10.30 AM CEST. It will include perspectives from port authorities and companies that enable the production and transport of hydrogen. Member ports, associate IAPH members or organisations interested in taking part may con

First ports joined World Ports Tracker community

June 24, 2022

96 ports from eight worldregions became part of the IAPH World Ports Tracker community by responding to the first quarterly survey providing informationabout expected number of cargo vessel calls, current hinterland transport conditions, current capacity utilisation of warehouses and distribution facilities, cargo throughput expectations, cruise and passenger vessel call size and frequency as well as current staff availability. These ports will receive early July an exclusive in-depth analysis o

Successful first Port Endeavor gameplay in French

June 24, 2022

On 16 June Port Endeavor was used for the training of twenty port managers from West African ports (Togo, Mauritania, Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Cameroon) and the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire as part of a dedicatedTrainForTradeprogramme held in Nantes, France. This was the first time that a Port Endeavor session took place in French, building further on the cooperation between IAPH and the UNCTAD TrainForTrade programme. The session was co-hosted by TrainForTrade chief of human resources develo

Port Technology International hosted IAPH cyber experts

June 24, 2022

Our new associate memberPort Technology Internationalheld an online cybersecurity event for ports and terminals yesterday for over 200 maritime and port professionals. Opening the conference, IAPH Data Collaboration chairmanPascal Ollivier (president,Maritime Street) made a keynote on key insights and practices based on the work completed by over 20 authors from ourmembership ranks for theIAPH Cybersecurity Guidelines for Ports and Port Facilities. The document was recently endorsed by IMO durin

Ennarasu Karunesan appointed IAPH India representative

June 24, 2022

To develop the IAPH network in India, we are pleased to announce that Ennarasu Karunesan has been appointed as our representative in the country. India has a coastline which is more than 7,517 km long, interspersed with more than 200 ports. The port sector in India is driven by high growth in external trade. Last year, Indian ports handled 650.52 million tonnes of cargo traffic. The key ports are furthermore expected to deliver investment projects worth USD 274.31 million on a public-private par

Welcome! Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited from India

June 22, 2022

We are pleased to announce that Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited joined the IAPH as an associate member. Kale Logistics Solutions Private Limited is an IT software company for logistics. The company is headquartered in India with regional branches and subsidiaries in the USA, Canada, Netherlands, UAE, Kenya, and Mauritius and serves more than 4500 customers in 29 countries. Its solutions help freight forwarders, NVOCC, LCL consolidators, shipping line agents, stevedores, surveyors, con

Welcome! BMT Group from Singapore

June 16, 2022

We are pleased to announce that BMT Group joined the IAPH as an associate member. BMT is a management and engineering consulting firm providing expertise to Ports and Terminals, Mining, Marine including offshore renewables, and Maritime industries. The company specializes in investment and market-related studies, master planning, maritime structures, and floating concepts to detailed engineering designs, project management and construction supervision, vessel inspection and surveys, management

Join the World Ports Tracker community

June 10, 2022

We are inviting ports worldwide to become part of the IAPH World Ports Tracker community. All that is needed is to respondto a short quarterly survey, providing informationabout expected number of cargo vessel calls, current hinterland transport conditions, current capacity utilisation of warehouses and distribution facilities, cargo throughput expectations, cruise and passenger vessel call size and frequency as well as current staff availability. The first survey covers the second quarter of 20

Discover the twelve IAPH priorities for 2022-2023

June 10, 2022

At the IAPH Annual General Meeting held after the 2022 World Ports Conference, members were presented with an overview of our work programme for the coming year. The programme consists of twelve priorities, grouped according to the three strategic focus areas of the organisation. It builds on the #ClosetheGaps theme of the Vancouver conference, the follow-up of which shapes our first priority, which consists of a joint report andIAPH’s contribution to the next edition of The World Bank’s Port Re

IAPH Cruise Committee takes new start with OPS focus

June 10, 2022

Next to our three strategic technical committees, which cover IAPH'swork programme priorities, we have three niche committees in operation, covering planning, operations & finance, legal issues, and cruise. The Cruise Committee has been inactive for about two years, largely due to the pandemic, but also due to a gap in leadership. Representatives of cruise member ports met in Vancouver three weeks ago, to explore how the committee could effectively be revitalised, defining a concrete agenda. The

Innovation Harbor Café planned for week 11 July

June 10, 2022

The Innovation Group of the IAPH Data Collaboration Committee is planning the first of a series of virtual walk-ins for IAPH regular and associate members at ourpopular online IAPH Harbor Café. The innovationsessions will showcase the work two member ports have initiated with start-ups including how they evaluated and selected the entrepreneurs, as well as giving the chance for the start-ups to share their solutions and experiences working with ports. The first is planned to be in July during th